English I Swain CORE Curriculum Map

Unit #1: Unit #2: Unit #3: Unit #4:

Non Fiction & Methods of Fiction Focus Drama Focus Poetry Focus
Communication
Text Types: Text Types: Text Types:
Text Types: Selected works will highlight the Selected works will focus on Selected works will focus on
Selected works will analyze Heros Journey, traditional plot the key components of poetic devices and forms,
reliable vs. unreliable narrators, structure, character development drama and stage including style, tone, mood,
Unit #/Name: overview literary forms, and setting for overall effect. performance, including figurative language and theme,
Units are organized by
audience, tone, and the use of terminology. rhyme, meter, etc.
literary genre for
flexibility. Individual evidence and analysis to Suggested Works:
construct argument. Texts may The Odyssey Suggested Works: Suggested Works:
teachers may choose Lord of the Flies
to also organize include essay, memoir, Macbeth Shakespearean Sonnets
The Destructors 12 Angry Men Porphyrias Lover
around theme. autobiography, speech, etc. The Lottery Excerpts from Civics A Bird Came Down the Walk
The Monstrumologist 180 Poems (Selections)
Suggested Works: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Excerpts from Civics
Tipping Point Indian
The Sixth Extinction One Summer Night
The Joy of Reading and Writing: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Superman and Me Excerpts from Civics
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
Black Men in Public Spaces
Excerpts from Civics

Communication is essential to Society is influenced by fiction and Life enacted as a social Poetry is a condensed, meditative
achieve personal liberties and fulfill fiction is influenced by society. experience results in social process of understanding complex
Big Idea:
personal responsibilities. response and has for centuries. ideas and concepts.

Essential Questions:
1. What is the heros journey? 1. Who is Shakespeare 1. What is the effect of society
1. What are the formal and 2. How do characters develop and why do we care on the individual?
informal methods of across the plot of a text? about him so much? 2. How should an individual
communication? 3. How do texts from different 2. How does a live contribute to society?
2. How do authors achieve cultures echo their values audience affect the 3. What are the various poetic
their purpose(s)? and traditions? literary experience? forms and for what purpose
are they used?

Timeline: 9 wks 9 wks 9 wks 9 wks

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State Standards:
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Competencies: Competencies: Competencies: Competencies:

Literary devices Literary devices Literary devices Literary devices
Modes of communication Five elements of fiction Social response
and technology integration The journey Skills:
Literary forms and their Epic Skills: Identify influences of word
uses, including audience Satire Navigation of acts and choice on tone
and purpose and informal Irony scenes Identify and utilize various
and formal writing Live performance poetic forms properly
The revision and editing Skills: Writing about and Create metaphor and
process Literary analysis citing drama extended metaphor to
Related
Synthesizing and connecting represent complex ideas
Competencies/ Skills: themes and concepts from
Transferable Skills:
Use of presentation multiple works
technology Essay composition
Formal correspondence
such as letter and email
writing
Utilize tone for
effectiveness

Note: All students in English I will prepare a writing portfolio, which will be assessed at the end of their sophomore year. This portfolio is
part of the SCHS English departments common assessment. This portfolio is a Google Drive collection of all work completed in English
Assessment: I. Other common assessments may include the following: conversation pieces, unified essays, reader response journals, creative
artwork, collaborative projects, tests, and any other routine formative assessments.